Legal Opinion
Scott v. Galaxy Fireworks, Inc.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided December 5, 2012No. 2D11-1583PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIS, Judge.
The State of Florida appeals the final judgment entered in favor of Galaxy Fireworks and Itzhak Dickstein (Appellees) by which they were awarded $1 million in damages plus prejudgment interest in an inverse condemnation case. We reverse.
Appellees are major retailers of fireworks in the State of Florida. They filed their inverse condemnation action in response to Executive Order 98-165, which was entered in 1998 by then Governor Lawton Chiles and forbade the sale, use, or discharge of fireworks or sparklers for the period of June 25 through July 9,1998. In their complaint,…
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